United States v. Jacob Isaac Leffler’s Empirical Analysis
36 U.S. 86 · 1837
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2001 · most notably Hamer v. New York Railways Co. (1917), United States v. Boyd (1847)
6 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bank of United States v. Dunn · Pawling v. The United States · Hartness v. Thompson · Riddle v. Moss
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If there be any one principle of law settled beyond all question, it is this, that whensoever a cause of action in the language of the law, transit in rem judicatam, and the judgment thereupon remains in full force unreversed, the original cause of action is merged and gone forever.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mason v. Finley
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.